Holger Ziegler
Holger Ziegler is a professor of social work at the Faculty of Education at Bielefeld University. He was a member of the Research Training Group Youth Welfare and Social Services in Transition of the German Research Foundation, Fellow at the Department of Criminology at Keele University, and an assistant professor of special education at Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster.
Since 2008, he has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia research school Education and Capability, and since 2010, a member of the academic advisory board of the German Soccer League. He is also a member of the Human Development and Capability Association, and since 2010, has served as the speaker of the HDCA Thematic Group on Education.
Academia
His main research fields are deviancy and social problems, research on social capital, impact research, inequality, and well-being.Research
- „Räumlichkeit und soziales Kapital in der Sozialen Arbeit – zur Governance des sozialen Raums“
- „Wirkungsevaluation von Maßnahmen in NRW und Schleswig-Holstein im Rahmen des Bundesprojekts „Frühe Hilfen für Eltern und Kinder und soziale Frühwarnsysteme“ “Evaluation of the effects of the Federal project “Early aids for parents and children, and social early-warning systems” in [North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein”
- „Education as Welfare – Enhancing opportunities for socially vulnerable youth in Europe“
- „Making Capabilities Work“
Selected publications
- with S. Andresen, I. Diehm, and U. Sander, eds. 2010. Children and the Good Life: New Challenges for Research on Children. Springer. Dordrecht.
- with H.-U. Otto, and A. Scherr 2010. Wieviel und welche Normativität benötigt die Soziale Arbeit? Befähigungsgerechtigkeit als Maßstab sozialarbeiterischer Kritik . Neue Praxis : 137–163.
- with H.-U. Otto, eds. 2010. Education, Welfare and the Capabilities Approach – European Perspectives. Opladen & Farmington Hills: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
- with H.-U. Otto, and A. Polutta. 2009. Evidence-based Practice – Modernising the Knowledge Base of Social Work?. Opladen & Farmington Hills: Barbara Budrich Publishers.
- with N. Oelkers. 2009. Punitivität, Verantwortung und Soziale Arbeit . Zeitschrift für Jugendkriminalrecht und Jugendhilfe : 38–44.
- with H.-U. Otto. 2008. The Notion of Causal Impact in Evidence-Based Social Work. Research on Social Work Practice 18: 273–277.
- with H.-U. Otto. 2007. Handlungsfähigkeiten und Verwirklichungschancen. Der Capability Approach als neue Orientierung in der Erziehungswissenschaft . Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
- with F. Kessl, and C. Reutlinger. 2007. Erziehung zur Armut? Soziale Arbeit und die „neue Unterschicht“ . Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
- 2006. Prävention und soziale Kontrolle . In Soziologische Basics. Eine Einführung für Pädagogen und Pädagoginnen, ed. A. Scherr, 146–153. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
- 2005. Soziale Arbeit als Garant für ‚das Soziale’ in der Kontrolle?. Kriminologisches Journal :162–183.